Kitchen Clout: Cooking Game 4+

I enjoy playing the app because it features black peoples and southern food. I am on level 60 and everything was going well until today. I got an upgrade and it disappeared so I got about her 7000 coins and got it again and it disappeared AGAIN . I also purchased more coins for $4.99 and a message said the purchase processed but I never received the coins. Guessing it’s glitchy but I’m gonna have to give it a rest. Can’t lose actual money and upgrades. Not in this economy.

Update: The developers stand behind their product and assisted me right away. I can go back to cooking now. Thank YOU!

Cooking games are my favorite. So I was excited to download this black produced one especially since it features food from my hometown New Orleans. I want to like this game so bad but it makes it hard to. I’ve been on level 65 for weeks. Ive gold starred every level so I can’t earn more coins that way. So I watched a bunch free coin videos to buy upgrades. And even with all the upgrades I STILL cant beat the level. I’ll try to give each customer a king cake so their bar is on green and still can’t beat it. I definitely won’t spend my real money on upgrades. I never saw a “pink shift” or extra levels. Also my lives are often taken from me. I’ll have all 5 lives, lose a level and then I somehow have 0. But the thing I dislike the most about this game is it’s terrible touch response!!!! It often trashes items after clicking once. Often I have to click food items 4 times before it goes to the pan. This game needs to work out the kinks but once that’s done I think it’ll be more pleasurable vs frustrating. Still going to play I hope I can beat level 65 one day.

Like other comments have said this game is fun and I love that it’s black created, but they have some things to work on. Once you get to the higher levels it’s harder and harder to make enough money and then on top of that the upgrades in the shop are crazy expensive. I reached the point where I’ve replayed all the levels to make money but it’s still not enough to buy the upgrades I need to advance in the game. It seems like they’re trying to get you to spend actual money on upgrades and coins which I will not do.
Also, the customers are hard to please. If they have multiple things in an order and you fulfill one or two of the things, the happy meter does not go up until you complete the order COMPLETELY. So it’s stressful when they get mad. So until they fix this I will not be playing for awhile.